Re: gz files in man folders

2005-08-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/5/05, Eric Blake wrote: > According to James McLaughlin on 8/5/2005 5:41 AM: > > While trying to find the file containing the man > > information for g++ (which I succeeded in doing), I > > noticed that in various subfolders of > > c:\cygwin\share\man (in particular man1 and man3) a > > lot of

RE: gz files in man folders

2005-08-05 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Eric Blake >Sent: 05 August 2005 13:13 > For files under 1k, zipping doesn't save any disk space (disk space is > used a block at a time, whether you use the entire block or not), and > wastes CPU cycles as it spawns the extra processes to unzip it. Actually, on

Re: gz files in man folders

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to James McLaughlin on 8/5/2005 5:41 AM: > While trying to find the file containing the man > information for g++ (which I succeeded in doing), I > noticed that in various subfolders of > c:\cygwin\share\man (in particular man1 and man3) a >